Bias? What Bias?

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 1/09/04 | Bernard Goldberg

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Jeez that's a long article. But a good one.

[Support Free Republic]

Got a minute?

I'd really like you to scratch my ears,
or help out FR.

[highlander_UW]

It was Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader in the Senate, who fired the first shot (unless you want to go back a few years to Hillary Clinton and her warning about the vast right-wing conspiracy)...

As I was reading this I kept hearing Hillary's voice going on about the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy". In fact, that's how I know I must not be a right-wing conservative. After all, I've never once received my special invitation to one of the super-secret "Right-Wing Conspiracy" meetings.

[kattracks]

After all, I've never once received my special invitation to one of the super-secret "Right-Wing Conspiracy" meetings.

I'll bet you never got your decoder ring either. ;o)

[highlander_UW]

I'll bet you never got your decoder ring either. ;o)

Ah man! I want one! How can I sign up for the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" and get me one of those decoder rings?! And since everyone knows that all right-wingers are rich fat cats I bet it's made out of platinum too.

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/918370/posts

Creator of 'Mr. Sterling' Admits: We TV Writers Are '99% Leftist'
NewsMax.com ^ | 5/27/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Professor's Study Shows Liberal Bias in News Media

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... recent Freedom Forum survey of Washington reporters and bureau chiefs revealed 89
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-Poll confirms Ivy League liberal tilt--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/896865/posts

The Politics of Hollywood
Uncommon Knowledge ^ | July 20, 2001 | Peter Robinson

A poll by the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change in 1992, eighty-three percent of film and television writers, directors and producers voted for Bill Clinton. Eighty-three percent. The vote that Clinton received in the country at large, forty-three percent.

No Bias in Media, ha ha, tee hee

[Straight Vermonter]

The Left, self-servingly, says it’s because conservatives (unlike civilized liberals, of course) are loud and angry

I don't understand this perception of the right. While we may at times be angry I don't believe I have ever heard a conservative in a red-faced rant. One needs only to go to any liberal gathering to see nearly every speaker in a spittle spewing frenzy.

[prisoner6]

Bumpers for laters...I want to show those links to a friend who works in TV news and claims there is no bias.

prisoner6

[FreedomPoster]

It's an excerpt from his new book, Arrogance (or at least looked like it, I remember the passage). Recommended reading; I'm about 1/4th through, will finish this weekend, it's a quick read. Go read Bias first, if you haven't.

[backhoe]

I want to show those links to a friend who works in TV news and claims there is no bias.

Cool- I hope he's capable of being educated.

The biggest problem I have with media types is their claims of being "objective"- in my opinion, no-one is really objective. We all have biases, points of view- a certain way of seeing things based on our life's experiences.

I believe it is better to admit you have a bias, and try to compensate, than to delude yourself into thinking that you are somehow above it all.

[FreedomPoster]

Welcome to another example of The Big Lie propaganda technique at work for the Left, by the Left.

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*! Love your tag line too !

[FreedomPoster]

Good morning, and I couldn't agree more. The entire concept of "objective journalism" is horsepucky. If you hear a journalist going on about being objective, you can be fairly certain he's more biased than most.

This claim to "objectivity" is a modern phenomenon. Go look at the names of newspapers during the Civil War. You'd have sheets like "The Springfield Republican" and "The Columbia Democrat". You still find a few papers like that around, in smaller markets. Papers would wear their biases on their sleeve.

[backhoe]

Good morning, neighbor- I appreciate your comments.

I have done a little writing for hire over the years, and about the first thing you learn interviewing people is that there are never just two sides to a story-- there are 3, 4, 5, or 6, and they are all at odds with each other!

About all you can do is take notes, ask a lot of leading, sometimes rude questions, and sift through all the verbiage at the end of it. If I had an opinion, I'd always state that clearly, so there'd be no confusion about where I stood.

You're right about "objective" being a modern conceit-- about 25 years ago I printed some old glass negatives of pictures taken in my little city by the sea in the eighteen-hundreds, and there were about 6 different newspapers, all blatantly partisan.

It's been so long I can't recall their names, but they were along the lines of "The Brunswick Democrat Times" and "Boy, those Democrats Stink!"

[FreedomPoster]

>>there were about 6 different newspapers, all blatantly partisan.

Like they aren't today, for anyone with critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, we no longer teach those in the goobermint skuls, so people don't recognize it. Let's hope they're beginning to get a glimmer.

Off topic - I bet y'all can't wait for the upcoming economic summit at The Cloister. ;-)

[backhoe]

- I bet y'all can't wait for the upcoming economic summit at The Cloister.

Let's just say that like Winnie ther Pooh, "I view it with great suspicion..."

The local assortment of Usual Suspects- politicians and businessmen who stand to benefit from this event- are trying to sell it as the Next Big Event That Will make Every One of Us Very Rich & Famous."
( Historic Note: Same claims were made for the 1996 Olympics, and Jimmy Carter's staying at Musgrove Plantation. I'm still waiting to get my cut from those events...)

I see it as a bloody aggrivation- congested traffic, hoards of strangers who view us locals with a mix of fascination and horror, security concerns, and general discombobulation of living normally...

[FreedomPoster]

Realistic take, unsurprisingly. That's about how I'd see it, if I were you.

[harpu]

bump for the morning crowd...

[HenryLeeII]

bump for later digestion - great article